Drew County, Arkansas
Drew County · Monticello, Arkansas, is the seat · a campus is not this hall · Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas
Monticello is the hall. A campus is not the county hall. Little Rock is the capital.
Drew County, Arkansas, was erected 26 November 1846 from Arkansas and Bradley and named for Thomas S. Drew, the third governor of Arkansas. Monticello is the seat. It is the urban center of this county. It is not the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock is. Wilmar, Tillar, Jerome, and Winchester are towns in this county — they are not the hall. A university campus sits in Monticello. It is not 210 South Main. It is not this Sheriff. This is not Monticello, New York. Not Monticello, Florida. Not Monticello, Kentucky / Indiana / Minnesota / Wisconsin / Iowa. Loggy Bayou is a swamp here — not a Louisiana bayou as this hall.
Places include Monticello, Wilmar, Tillar, Jerome, and Winchester. 2020 census: 17,350. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — pine-to-Delta remainder patrol and the jail at 210 South Main Street this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Drew County.
Nine Justices. Judge at 210 South Main. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Drew is a County Judge plus a nine-member Quorum Court. The Judge lists at 210 South Main Street, Monticello, AR 71655. They fund roads, the detention house, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Monticello City Council is a city body. A campus board is not this Quorum Court. The Arkansas General Assembly sits in Little Rock. None of those is this Quorum Court.
The courthouse lists at 210 South Main Street — 1932 Classical Moderne, National Register. Quorum Court meets at the District Court Building, 107 East Jackson Avenue. Confirm at drewcoar.com and arcounties.org. Arkansas City is Desha. Hamburg is Ashley. Warren is Bradley. Rison is Cleveland. Star City is Lincoln.
The Sheriff is four years, Article 7, § 46 / Amendment 95, on the gubernatorial table. Last regular Tuesday, 8 November 2022. Next regular Tuesday, 3 November 2026. Preferential primary Tuesday, 3 March 2026 (already sat). Take office 1 January 2027 (A.C.A. § 21-1-102). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Little Rock. Justices of the Peace are two years.
Pine hills to the Delta. This is not Monticello, New York. This is not Monticello, Florida.
Southeast Arkansas. Timber west, Delta east. Bayou Bartholomew cuts the map. U.S. 425 and U.S. 278 are the spines. Lincoln is north — Star City is that hall. Desha is northeast — Arkansas City is that hall; Dumas is not that hall. Chicot is southeast — Lake Village is that hall. Ashley is south — Hamburg is that hall. Bradley is west — Warren is that hall. Cleveland is northwest — Rison is that hall. Staff who paste a campus onto Main Street, or treat New York as this oval, or file Monticello as the capital, are on the wrong county.
How a Drew public finds 210 South Main and 107 East Jackson
Courthouse / County Judge / County Clerk / Sheriff / jail: 210 South Main Street, Monticello, AR 71655. Sheriff (870) 367-6211. Jail (870) 460-6215. Quorum Court: 107 East Jackson Avenue. Confirm live doors at drewcoar.com and drewcountysheriff.com before you drive. A student who only knows a campus photograph, or a New York postcard, has not found this campus.
210 South Main still jails. Monticello PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Drew — Wilmar remainder, Tillar remainder, Winchester country — is this Sheriff. Crime in Monticello is often Monticello Police. This Sheriff is not that badge. County and ASA list the Drew County Detention Facility at 210 South Main Street on the same campus as the Sheriff’s Office and the 1932 court. That house is this badge’s shop — ASA 42 beds. It is not campus security. It is not ADC. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to a campus, to Monticello, New York, or to Little Rock.
Civil process and court security at 210 South Main are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a campus parking lot. Remedy for Monticello Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when Bayou Bartholomew floods is this count first.
What southeast Arkansas actually watches from Monticello
Court calendars at 210 South Main. A wreck on U.S. 425. High water on Bayou Bartholomew. A night road outside Wilmar. Coordination with Monticello Police and ASP without becoming those departments. Coordination with Desha’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Arkansas City as this hall. A campus photograph does not steal the seat. Little Rock remains the capital. Monticello remains the hall.
Monticello snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Monticello · Capital (not this seat): Little Rock
- Government: County Judge + nine Justices of the Peace · court / jail 210 South Main · Quorum Court 107 East Jackson
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · remainder patrol and jail this Sheriff still holds · jail 210 South Main · ASA 42
- Neighbors: Lincoln · Desha · Chicot · Ashley · Bradley · Cleveland
- Not Monticello, New York / Florida · Not a campus as this hall · Not Desha as this oval
What Monticello is not — not New York, not Florida, not the capital
- Not Little Rock as this seat. Little Rock is the capital. Monticello is the seat.
- Not a campus as the county hall. Not campus police as this oval.
- Not Monticello, New York. Not Sullivan County. Not Monticello, Florida.
- Not Arkansas City as this hall. Not Hamburg. Not Warren. Not Rison.
- Not Monticello PD as this Sheriff. Not ASP as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.